Mazhar Botanic Garden

Falconeria insignis Royle

Tiger’s Milk Spruce Chinese tallow

Sample code: EGY-MBG-000170
English name: Tiger’s Milk Spruce, Chinese tallow
Arabic name: سابيم انسيجنس
Native: India, Nepal, China
Country: China India Nepal
(PGR): Very rare

Small tree up to 5-10 m high leaves elliptic lanceolate with serrate margins flowers small, unisexual, in terminal spikes fruits biglobose 7-8 mm in diam exocarp slightly fleshy Seeds globose, outside with white, waxy arils

Soil:  limestone, granitic bedrock

Ornamental plant.

Sapium insigne (Royle) Trimen

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Texture: Chalk
Water Sources: Moderate Water
Lights: Full sun
Propagation: Seeds
Flowering time: Winter

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